Navigating to specific page of forum home.

osarusan

I think maybe this should go in Site Development, but that's kind of a black hole at the moment, so maybe it will be ok here.

I want to know if there is a way to navigate to a specific page of a forum - what I mean by this is as follows:

If I look at the After Hours forum, there are some stickies at the top, and a list of threads underneath, ordered by how recent the last post in each thread was. As other threads get more replies, some threads fall off the bottom of the page and onto the 2nd page, then the 3rd, and so on.

If I take this thread as a random example:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82747664

what I want to do is look at the list of posters who posted in this thread, but to do that I need to be looking not at the thread itself, but at the page of the forum the thread is on, which might be page 50 or page 500.

As far I can see, the only way to do this is to note the date of the last post in the thread and then trawl through the pages of the forum, with dates getting closer, until I finally hit that page. Then, I can click on the 'who has posted in this thread' link which is also the total number of posts in the thread.

Is there an easier way of finding this?

Tokyo

I'm pretty sure that there isn't a specific link once you are in the thread itself but if you look at the URL of any post, you'll see that it has a unique identifier. Take the link you posted for example:

[noparse]http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php[/noparse]?p=82747664

Open a new tab and copy the post ID from the url into the following link - this will give you a list of posters who have contributed to the same thread as that post.

[noparse]http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/misc.php?do=whoposted&p=[/noparse]<postID>

in this case:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/misc.php?do=whoposted&p=82747664

osarusan

Fantastic, thanks. I never thought to do that.